These denominations view that sort of dutifulness as sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Misfortune?] Reference
If he could thus begin to atone for his want of dutifulness towards his son. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
She was given to dutifulness, religious and artistic, and this strengthened her. From Wordnik.com. [Touched by Evil] Reference
It was downtempo weather that fit the air of dutifulness which surrounded the event. From Wordnik.com. [McCain’s Relaunch: Quick First Reaction - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
He had placed his demand in the most irresistible form, by calling upon her dutifulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Once there are superior and inferior, ritual and dutifulness have something to deal with. From Wordnik.com. [Empresses and Consorts] Reference
Our position in that department must be determined by our dutifulness and progress in this. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Her expression a perfect mockery of humble dutifulness, she asked, "Where should you like me to begin?". From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
I watch as many people who identify with this group swallow lies whole and glory in their dutifulness to authority in doing so. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens When Crying Wolf Isn't Working?] Reference
After dinner the bride was again urged to get up, but maidenly modesty and her dutifulness to her parents still forbade her to obey. From Wordnik.com. [Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women] Reference
And he -- from an early age, he -- he learned frugality, he learned dutifulness and all the sort of -- you know, a Boy Scout virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Robert E. Lee on Leadership] Reference
Such a course can be taken without detriment to justice and dutifulness, nay, it is the one which a just and dutiful man would adopt. From Wordnik.com. [Theologico-Political Treatise] Reference
Forgetting her habitual love and dutifulness, her mind would dwell on some remembered occasion when she told herself she had failed him. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Indeed, my dear, - said I, you do not, in this point, treat your father and mother with the dutifulness that tlieir indul-gence deserves. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
In addition to general dutifulness, the development to a conspicuous degree of the special talents such as writing, instructing, lecturing and staff administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
She was so much caressed and flattered by her family for her "exquisite dutifulness," as they phrased it, that she ended by believing that she had behaved beautifully. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
It could also lead us to dull and grey coloured dutifulness. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
With how much joy will she reflect upon her dutifulness as a child!. From Wordnik.com. [The Child at Home The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated] Reference
Sternly judging the dutifulness of their decedents for ornate gilt frames. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
What has brought you into this sudden fit of dutifulness and fine talking?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
You see, our natural state is one of compliance, of deference, of dutifulness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But with a sense of more human dutifulness, Perry recalled his residuum of perception. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
Even when you praise him for his dutifulness to you, he says it's not that, but his love for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference
If the description of such dutifulness seems fanciful, the thing itself surpasses all supposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
So the traveller, with the dutifulness that he ever showed to his father, at once bent his steps northward. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbon] Reference
There's no other profession in the world, where, with perfect dutifulness, you can spend so much time on your back. From Wordnik.com. [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference
I wish there were more who would understand the true uprightness and dutifulness of thinking no shame of an honest employment. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
A good house, as well as the dutifulness which she owed to one so reverend and so revered. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
"dutifulness and most commendable dealing with the Scots;" and soon after three English members of the Dublin Government complain that. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
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